Re:German state ditches Microsoft for Linux and LibreOffice
by csdreamer7 on Monday April 08, 2024 @09:49AM
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> But video recording and streaming? Why would anyone prefer to use MS Office for that when OBS exists?
OBS was a lot more complicated. Yes, professional streaming you should use it.
She was doing a ph.d in social sciences. She had little desire, or really need, to use it when MS Office did what she wanted out of the box. Screen recorded presentations with powerpoint.
> Is it as obnoxious as having to use Teams for chat?
They did not use teams for chat. They used gsuite for almost everything else.
> That's certainly a case of having a hammer and thinking all problems are nails xD
No, it really is not.
> Annotations, citations, bibliography management I can understand, even if I use LaTeX for that and consider it a far superior tool.
Really? My mother was struggling to remember how to use a Windows desktop. You really want to suggest learning latex when she had term papers to do for a $60k degree? The required document format was ms word.
OBS was a lot more complicated. Yes, professional streaming you should use it.
She was doing a ph.d in social sciences. She had little desire, or really need, to use it when MS Office did what she wanted out of the box. Screen recorded presentations with powerpoint.
> Is it as obnoxious as having to use Teams for chat?
They did not use teams for chat. They used gsuite for almost everything else.
> That's certainly a case of having a hammer and thinking all problems are nails xD
No, it really is not.
> Annotations, citations, bibliography management I can understand, even if I use LaTeX for that and consider it a far superior tool.
Really? My mother was struggling to remember how to use a Windows desktop. You really want to suggest learning latex when she had term papers to do for a $60k degree? The required document format was ms word.